Re: [RFC 0/1] Platform driver support for 'amd5536udc' driver

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Friday, January 6, 2017 12:29:12 PM CET Raviteja Garimella wrote:
> Hi Arnd,
> 
> On Fri, Jan 6, 2017 at 3:33 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Thursday, January 5, 2017 1:53:16 PM CET Raviteja Garimella wrote:
> >> The UDC is based on Synopsys Designware core USB (2.0) Device controller
> >> IP.
> > ...
> >> This is a request for comments from maintainers/others regarding approach
> >> on whether to have 2 different drivers (one each for AMD and Broadcom)
> >> with a common library (3 files in total), or have a single driver like
> >> it's done in this patch and have the driver filename changed to some
> >> common name based on ther underlying IP, like snps_udc.c.
> >
> > I have not looked at the code at all, so sorry for my ignorance, but
> > isn't the IP block you describe the one that drivers/usb/dwc2/ is for?
> > Could you add support for the Broadcom hardware there instead?
> 
> The current driver I submitted is for a different Synopsys IP (USB
> Device Controller IP,
> not the HS OTG). It's confirmed by John Youn (from Synopsys) earlier.
> 

Ok, sounds fine the. I'd suggest taking the current driver than and
splitting out the pci_driver front-end into a separate module that
calls exported symbols of the main driver, with the new platform
driver in a third file that also calls the same exported symbols.

	Arnd